Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.

Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.

There are admirable potentialities in every human being.

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.